Book lists

Novels

• TIME's 100 Novels, since 1923 (PDF)
• Dune

Classics

• The Harvard Classics: The Shelf of Fiction
• The Penguin Classics: Ancient

Jewish

• Duties of the Heart

Chinese

• The Analects (論語, 논어), Confucius (551-479 B.C.)
• Mozi (墨子, 묵자), Mo Tzu
• Tao-te Ching (道德經, 도덕경), Laozi
• Chuang Tzu
• Mencius, Meng Tzu (372-289 B.C.)
• The Great Learning (大學)
• The Mean
• Hsün Tzu, or Hsün Ch’ing
• Han Fei Tzu
• Records of the Historian: The Shih chi of Ssu-ma Ch’ien (ca. 145-ca. 90 B.C.)
• Texts of Chinese Buddhism
• The Lotus Sutra (Saddharma Pundarika Sutra, or Miao-fa Lien-hua ching)
• The Vimalakirtinirdesa Sutra (Wei-mo-chieh so-shuo ching)
• The Awakening of Faith in Mahayana (Ta-ch’eng ch’i-hsin lun)
• Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Liu-tsu t’an ching)
• The Record of Lin-chi (d. 866)
• Supplementary Readings on Chinese Buddhism
• Works of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)
• Works of Wang Yang-ming (1472-1529)
• General Readings in Chinese Fiction
• The Water Margin, or All Men Are Brothers (Shui-hu chuan)
• Journey to the West, or Monkey (Hsi-yu Chi), by Wu Ch’eng-en (ca. 1506-1581)
• The Golden Lotus (Chin P’ing Mei)
• Dream of the Red Chamber (Hung-lou meng), by Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in (Ts’ao Chan, d. 1763)
• Chinese Drama
• Chinese Poetry
• The Book of Songs (Shih ching)
• The Songs of the South (Ch’u Tz’u) by Ch’ü Yüan and Other Poets
• Chinese Poets and Poetry

Japanese

• Man’yôshû
• Court Poetry: The Kokinshû and other Imperial Anthologies
• The Pillow Book (Makura no sôshi) of Sei Shônagon
• The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) by Murasaki Shikibu
• Poetic Diaries and Poem Tales
• Texts of Japanese Buddhism
• Writings of Kûkai (Kôbô Daishi, 774-835)
• Writings of Buddhist Masters of the Kamakura Period
• Writings of the Zen Master Hakuin (1686-1769)
• Supplementary Readings in Japanese Buddhism
• An Account of My Hut (Hôjôki) by Kamo no Chômei (1153-1236)
• Essays in Idleness (Tsurezuregusa) by Yoshida Kenkô (1283-1350)
• The Tale of the Heiki (Heiki monogatari)
• The Nô Plays
• The Fiction of Ihara Saikaku (1642-1693)
• The Poetry and Prose of Matsuo Bashô (1644-1694)
• The Plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725)
• The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (Chûshingura, ca. 1748), by Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shôraku, and Namiki Senryû
• Kokoro, by Natsume Sôseki (1867-1914)

Indian

• The Vedas
• Upanishads (ca. 900-500 B.C.)
• Mahabharata (ca. fifth century B.C.-fourth century C.E.)
• Bhagavadgita (ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 100)
• Ramayana of Valmiki (ca. 200 B.C.)
• Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (ca. A.D. 300)
• The Vedanta Sutra with the Commentary of Shankaracharya (ca. 780-820)
• Theravada Buddhism: The Tipitaka
• Theravada Buddhism: The Dhammapada (ca. 300 B.C.)
• Theravada Buddhism: The Milindapanha (ca. first century C.E.)
• Theravada Buddhism: The Mahasatipatthana Sutta
• Mahayana Buddhism: Prajnaparamita (ca. 100 B.C.-A.D. 400)
• Mahayana Buddhism: The Srimaladevisimhanada Sutra
• Mahayana Buddhism: The Lankavatara Sutra
• Mahayana Buddhism: The Sukhavativyuha Sutras
• Mahayana Buddhism: The Bodhicaryavatara of Shantideva (ca. 650)
• Supplementary Readings on Indian Buddhism
• Shakuntala (Abhijnanasakuntala) of Kalidasa (ca. 400)
• The Little Clay Cart (Mrrcchakatika) of Shudraka (ca. 400)
• Pancatantra (ca. 200 B.C.) According to Purnabhadra (ca. 1199)
• Sanskrit Lyric Poetry
• Gitagovinda of Jayadeva (ca. twelfth century)
• Indian Devotional Poetry
• Indo-Islamic Poetry
• Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
• Autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Islamic

• The Seven Odes (Al-Mu’allaqat)
• The Qur’an (Al-Qur’an)
• The Ring of the Dove (Tawq al-Hamama), by Ibn Hazm (994-1064)
• The Maqamat of al-Hamadhani (Maqamat al-Hamadhani) (968-1008)
• The Assemblies of al-Hariri (Maqamat al-Hariri) (1054-1122)
• The Thousand and One Nights (Alf Layla wa-Layla)
• Deliverance from Error (Al-Munqidh min al-Dalal), by al-Ghazali (1058-1111)
• On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy (Kitab fasl al-maqal), by Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (1126-1198)
• The Conference of Birds, by Farid al-Din ’Attar (ca. 1142-ca. 1220)
• The Mystical Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
• The Prolegomena (Al-Muqaddima) of Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)
• The Shahnama
• The Ruba’iyyat of ’Umar Khayyam (eleventh century)
• The Book of Dede Korkut (Kitab-i Dede Korkut)
• The Mystical Poetry of Yunus Emre (d. ca. 1320)
• Leyla and Mejnun, by Fuzuli (ca. 1495-1556)

Miscellaneous

• 신학생 필독서 100권

Flaws of science

• Scientific racism
  • "Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory." - Stephen Jay Gould
  • The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
  • The Passing of the Great Race by Madison Grant

100 must-read books for men

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1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
3. Slaughterhouse‐Five by Kurt Vonnegut
4. 1984 by George Orwell
5. The Republic by Plato
6. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
7. The Catcher and the Rye by J.D. Salinger
8. The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
9. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
10. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
11. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
12. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
13. How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie
14. Call of the Wild by Jack London
15. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
16. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
17. Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
18. The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer
19. Catch‐22 by Joseph Heller
20. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
21. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
22. The Master and Margarita by by Mikhail Bulgakov
23. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
24. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
25. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
26. American Boys’ Handy Book
27. Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
28. King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
29. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
30. A River Runs Through It by Norman F. Maclean
31. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
32. Malcolm X: The Autobiography
33. Theodore Rex by Edmund Morris
34. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
35. All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarq
36. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
37. Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans by Plutarch
38. The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt
39. The Bible
40. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
41. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
42. The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
43. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
44. The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden
45. The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
46. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
47. The Histories by Herodotus
48. From Here to Eternity by James Jones
49. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
50. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
51. Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins
53. White Noise by Don Delillo
54. Ulysses by James Joyce
55. The Young Man’s Guide by William Alcott
56. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
57. Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond by Denis Johnson
58. Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
59. Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
60. The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry by Christine De Pizan
61. The Art of Warfare by Sun Tzu
62. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
63. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
64. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
65. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
66. The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt
67. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
68. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
69. The Thin Red Line by James Jones
70. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
71. The Politics by Aristotle
72. First Edition of the The Boy Scout Handbook
73. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
74. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
75. The Crisis by Winston Churchill
76. The Naked and The Dead by Norman Mailer
77. Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
78. Animal Farm by George Orwell
79. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
80. Beyond Good and Evil by Freidrich Nietzsche
81. The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison
82. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
83. Essential Manners for Men by Peter Post
84. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly
85. Hamlet by Shakespeare
86. The Boys of Summer by Roger Kahn
87. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
88. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
89. The Stranger by Albert Camus
90. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Dafoe
91. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
92. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
93. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
94. Confederacy of Dunces ‐ John Kennedy Toole
95. Foucault’s Pendulum ‐ Umberto Eco
96. The Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
97. Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
98. Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose
99. Paradise Lost by John Milton
100. Cannery Row by John Steinbeck

by grade

3rd grade

• Nonfiction,Biography,Amelia to Zora: Twenty-six Women Who Changed the World,Cynthia Chin-Lee,
• Nonfiction,Biography,Author: A True Story,Helen Lester,
• Nonfiction,Biography,Bill Peet: An Autobiography,Bill Peet,
• Nonfiction,Biography,Clean Sea: Story of Rachel Carson,"Carol Hilgartner Schlank, et al.",
• Nonfiction,Biography,Houdini: World's Greatest Mystery Man and Escape King,Kathleen Krull,
• Nonfiction,Biography,Leonardo da Vinci,Diane Stanley,
• Nonfiction,Biography,Reaching for the Moon,Buzz Aldrin,
• Nonfiction,Biography,So You Want to be An Explorer?,Judith St. George,
• Nonfiction,Biography,The Tree of Life: A Book Depicting the Life of Charles Darwin,Peter Sis,
• Nonfiction,Biography,Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May?,Jean Fritz,
• Nonfiction,Biography,Who Was Harry Houdini?,Tui Sutherland,
• Nonfiction,History,The American History: 100 True Tales from American History,Jennifer Armstrong,
• Nonfiction,History,Animals in the House: A History of Pets and People,Sheila Keenan,
• Nonfiction,History,So You Want to be President?,Judith St. George,
• Nonfiction,History,What if You Met a Pirate?,Jan Adkins,
• Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Easy to be Green: Simple Activities You Can Do to Save the Earth,Ellie O'Ryan,
• Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Great White Sharks,Sandra Markle,
• Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Living Color,Steve Jenkins,
• Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Garbage and Recycling (Young Discoverers),Rosie Harlow and Sally Morgan,
• Nonfiction,Science/Nature,Storms,Seymour Simon,
• Fiction,Reading,Frindle,Andrew Clements,
• Fiction,Reading,I and You and Don’t Forget Who: What is a Pronoun?,Brian P. Cleary,
• Fiction,Reading,Summer Reading is Killing Me,Jon Scieszka,
• Fiction,School,Dexter the Tough,Margaret Pterson Haddix,
• Fiction,School,Mapping Penny's World,Loreen Leedy,
• Fiction,School,La Mariposa,Francisco Jimenez,
• Fiction,School,"Thank You, Mr. Falker",Patricia Polacco,
• Fiction,Positive,Are We There Yet?,Alison Lester,
• Fiction,Positive,Babe the Gallant Pig,Dick King-Smith,
• Fiction,Positive,The Conquerors,David McKee,
• Fiction,Positive,Dare to Dream!,Carl Sommer,
• Fiction,Positive,"Dream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom, & Wishes",Susan V. Bosak,
• Fiction,Positive,The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio,Lloyd Alexander,
• Fiction,Positive,Hachiko Waits,Leslea Newman,
• Fiction,Positive,Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story,Wendy Tokuda & Richard Hall,
• Fiction,Positive,Judy Moody,Megan McDonald,
• Fiction,Positive,Letters from Rapunzel,Sara Lewis Holmes,
• Fiction,Positive,Loser,Jerry Spinelli,
• Fiction,Positive,Paint the Wind,Pam Munoz Ryan,
• Fiction,Positive,The Penguin's Peril: Taylor-Made Tales #4,Ellen Miles,
• Fiction,Positive,The Quiltmaker's Gift,Jeff Brumbeau,
• Fiction,Positive,The Quiltmaker's Journey,Jeff Brumbeau,
• Fiction,Positive,The Rag Coat,Lauren Mills,
• Fiction,Positive,Thunder Rose,Jerdine Nolen,
• Fiction,Classic,Half Magic,Edward Eager,
• Fiction,Classic,Homer Price,Robert McCloskey,
• Fiction,Classic,Peter Pan,J. M. Barrie,
• Fiction,Classic,Rabbit Hill,Robert Lawson,
• Fiction,Classic,The Wheel on the School,Meindert Dejong,
• Fiction,Classic,The Wolves of Willoughby Chase,Joan Aiken,
• Fiction,Historical,Great White Sharks,Sandra Markle,
• Fiction,Historical,Molly's Pilgrim,Barbara Cohen,
• Fiction,Historical,Morning Girl,Michael Dorris,
• Fiction,Historical,Samuel Eaton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Boy,Kate Waters,
• Fiction,Historical,Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl,Kate Waters,
• Fiction,Historical,Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Batutta 1325-1354,James Rutherford,
• Fiction,Mystery,Freddy the Detective,Walter Brooks,
• Fiction,Mystery,Lizard Music,Daniel Manus Pinkwater,
• Fiction,Mystery,Shredderman: Secret Identity,Wendelin Van Draanen,
• Fiction,Mystery,Boy of a Thousand Faces,Brian Selznick,
• Fiction,Mystery,Edgar & Ellen Under Town,Charles Ogden,
• Fiction,Mystery,Framed,Frank Boyce,
• Fiction,Mystery,Jim Ugly,Sid Fleischman,
• Fiction,Mystery,The Missing 'Gator of Gumbo Limbo: An Eco Mystery,Jean Craighead George,
• Fiction,Mystery,"Murder, My Tweet: A Chet Gecko Mystery",Bruce Hale,
• Fiction,Mystery,Atherton Book 1: The House of Power,Patrick Carman,
• Fiction,Mystery,Do the Funky Pickle,Jerry Spinelli,
• Fiction,Mystery,Love That Dog,Sharon Creech,
• Fiction,Mystery,Lunch Money,Andrew Clements,
• Fiction,Mystery,No Talking,Andrew Clements,
• Fiction,Mystery,Picklemania,Jerry Spinelli,
• Fiction,Mystery,Prizefighter en mi Casa,E. E. Charlton-Trujillo,
• Fiction,Mystery,Sahara Special,Esme Codell,
• Fiction,Mystery,The School Story,Andrew Clements,
• Fiction,Mystery,There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom,Louis Sachar,
• Fiction,Mystery,Waiting for Normal,Leslie Connor,

10th grade

• The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides
• The Bacchae, Euripides
• Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
• The Clouds, Aristophanes
• The Republic, Plato
• Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle
• The War with Hannibal, Livy
• Selected Works, Cicero
• The Annals of Imperial Rome, Tacitus
• Eclogues and Georgics, Virgil
• Metamorphosess, Ovid
• The Jewish War, Josephus
• Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
• Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare
• Phantastes, George MacDonald
• Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis
• Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie